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16 million men register themselves in United States for the WWII draft, and President Roosevelt addresses from White House.

As World War II heats up, 16,500,000 men between ages 21 to 36 register themselves throughout the United States, signing up during the first peacetime conscription in U.S. history. (This was triggered by passage of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act, the genesis of "Selective Service.") Opening scene shows men lining up to register for the draft before the United States entered World War 2. Views of men filing out their registration forms. At 00:22 famous prize fighter, Barney Ross, is being registered. (He jokes that the registrar shaking his hand has too strong a grip.) At 00:34 Hollywood cowboy Gene Autry is seen registering. Close up view of street signs at Chinatown intersection of Bayard Street and Mott Street in New York City. Sign below it notes "School Street. Drive Slowly. Make no unnecessary noise." Line of many registrants of Chinese-American descent waiting in line, and processing paperwork. Scene changes to another area of the city, where a line of mostly African American men wait outside a registration building. Some cheer and wave for the camera. A police officer at the entrance hustles them inside, pulling some of them along. View of the exterior of the White House in Washington DC. United States President Franklin D Roosevelt addresses the nation's men of draft age, telling them that the call up of 800,000 men for training in year one, and less than one million men in each subsequent year, is a program of defensive preparation only. Roosevelt says to the registrants that "Democracy is your cause. The cause of youth." ( Note: clip is silent except for President Roosevelt speaking at the end.)

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940, October 16
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037158
Nisei live in uneasy conditions at relocation centers yet develop mechanized farming and houses, during World War II.

Nisei, the Japanese Americans of second generation, at relocation centers (internment camps) during World War 2. A relocation center in Wyoming. Japanese man and women carry buckets at a place to bath. Women wash cloth in the public tubs. Nisei gather in morning at the mess. People dine together. Nisei police guards on duty at relocation centers. A Victory Garden with fruits and vegetable developed by Japanese farmers. Nisei farmers in farms. Men and women harvest vegetables from a field. A man on the tractor plows a field. Rice fields developed in Gila River, Amazon by Nisei farmers. Workers feed chicken at a poultry farm. Mechanized farming equipment repaired by Nisei mechanic.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037180
Nisei men and women work with various professions at the relocation centers, during World War II.

Nisei, the Japanese Americans of second generation, at relocation centers (internment camps) during World War 2. Nisei with various profession work at the relocation camp. A welder makes wheels, workers work on machines, a cook in a kitchen. A woman poses and a photographer takes photo. A Nisei secretary to an American official. A painter, typists, workers at textile mills work at the relocation centers. Nisei women make dolls and coats. A beautician works on a Nisei woman. Woman sells cloth at a cloth store.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037181
Japanese-American recruits in U.S. Army learn to make pontoon bridges and using dynamites at Camp Shelby in Missouri.

Japanese-American U.S. Army soldiers, receiving training at Camp Shelby in Missouri, United States, during World War 2. Convoy of amphibious vehicles and jeeps drive on mud roads. Army engineers on amphibious vehicle in a river. Engineers return back to the river banks. Organized military crew at the bank receives orders to built pontoon bridge. Soldiers tie ropes, assemble bridge, and arrange its pieces in river to make a complete river bridge. Rifled soldiers cross the bridge. The highest rank Nisei officer instructs as the soldiers set dynamite, the officer demonstrates dynamite explosion.

Location: Missouri United States USA
Date: 1944, February 16
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037184
Streets with cars and pedestrians and a military truck in Honolulu, Hawaii, during World War II, 1942

Streets with cars and pedestrians and a military truck in Honolulu, Hawaii, early in World War 2. A model 'T' Ford car drives on the road. Sign over a shop idenfifies "Poi Factory." Pedestrians walk on sidewalks. A military ambulance on the road. Houses and buildings on roadside.

Location: Honolulu Hawaii USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037187
Glimpse of activities in Pearl Harbor and environs early in World War II.

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, early in World War 2. U.S. Navy pilots looking serious, being briefed, and then turning to look at Board carrying duty assignment information. Views of palm trees and ocean surf. Navy Chaplain Lieutenant's shoulder board. A navy diver, in rubber diving suit, with grease on his face, reports findings to officers on deck of a vessel damaged by the Japanese attack of December 7th, 1941. He laughs at a remark from one of the officers.

Location: Honolulu Hawaii USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037189
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